Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple

Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple^[3] (simplified Chinese: 解州关帝庙; traditional Chinese: 解州關帝廟), or Haizhou Guandi Temple,^[4] is a temple located in Haizhou Town, Yanhu District, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province.^[5] It is hailed as "the grand ancestor of temples dedicated to Guan Yu" (关庙之祖).^[6] The Temple is the largest extant palace-style Taoist complex and martial temple in China.^[7]

Haizhou Guandi Temple
Religion
Affiliation	Taoism
Location
Location	Haizhou, Yuncheng, Shanxi[1]
Country	China
Architecture
Date established	589[2]

Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple is the largest Emperor Guan Temple (关帝庙) in China.^[8] It has a total area of 220,000 square meters, with more than 200 rooms.^[9]

History

Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was established in the ninth year of Kaihuang (开皇) during the Sui dynasty (589), expanded and rebuilt during the Song dynasty and Ming dynasty.^[10]

Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was destroyed by fire in the forty-first year of Kangxi (1702) during the Qing dynasty and was restored after more than ten years.^[11]

Conservations

In 1957, Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was designated by the Shanxi Provincial People's Government as the first batch of provincial-level key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province.^[12]

In 1988,^[13] Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple was listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in China.^[14]

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